Chapter 15: Little Ash’s Dimwit Classroom
After Li Wei’s father and mother successively left home at seven and eight in the morning with their luggage, only Li Wei and his four Pokémon remained in the empty big house.
As someone with ideals, the first thing Li Wei did after his parents left home was to sleep in.
Incredibly real.
The first day, that is, April 19th.
After seeing off his parents, he slept all the way until the sun was high in the sky.
Very refreshing, but a bit empty.
Looking at the warm sunlight outside the window, a rare sense of guilt for wasting time washed over his heart.
“No good, I’ve gotten weak too.”
With such emotion, Li Wei walked to the desk, picked up a pen, spread out paper, and wrote down a few big words—Training Plan.
1. Develop good living habits
This first item was written down by Li Wei after thinking for a full three minutes.
It seems like nonsense, but it’s incredibly real.
Generally speaking, training plans should be things like “Master Hyper Beam” or “Master Mega Kick.”
But after contemplating for a good while, and looking at Eevee and Riolu still sleeping soundly on the bed, Li Wei felt that this first item had to be this “unambitious” content.
First, he needed to teach Eevee and Riolu to groom themselves.
At the very least, get them to wash their faces and brush their teeth by themselves, bathe and dry themselves, eat by themselves, and so on.
After all, he wasn’t like those two embarrassing adults who would hold Eevee and Riolu and feed them with a loving face.
Moreover, from a nurturing perspective, it’s also very necessary for Pokémon to have basic self-care abilities.
It’s not at all like how it’s shown in the anime······
The browser also says that if young Pokémon aren’t trained to have good habits, they’ll definitely suffer the consequences for a long time in the future.
In the moment of thinking about how to effectively teach these two Pokémon, Li Wei felt like he had become a dad.
Besides basic life skills, Li Wei also needed to urge the two little ones sleeping like pigs on the bed to get up early for morning exercise.
As someone who likes sleeping in, nothing is more painful than having to set an example himself.
Last night, his father had specifically talked to him.
The content of the talk wasn’t any ideological education; his father just shared some of his insights as a trainer.
This is unreleased information.
Surveys show that going out for morning exercise or home training from 5 a.m. to 7 a.m. every day makes it easier for Pokémon to absorb their own attribute abilities and has body strengthening effects.
For trainers like them with special abilities, training during this time also brings far greater benefits than ordinary time periods.
Under this reasoning, for the sake of his Pokémon’s strength and the future title of league’s number one trainer, Li Wei really had no choice but to get up early and special train with his Pokémon.
So no matter from what angle, this item “good routine training plan” is a must.
Not just for the Pokémon, but for himself too.
Who told him to be a man with Aura?
Heaven is about to entrust a great responsibility to this person~~
2. Provincial Competition Champion
This point Li Wei wrote down without thinking, just picking up the pen.
Being a person, you gotta have a dream.
Even a salted fish has to strive to turn over, right?
Although his parents told him it’s a direct recommendation.
And the recommended school is the Magic City’s number one Pokémon academy, but Li Wei felt that even if he’s recommended, he still needs to put on all the shows.
This counts as a struggle goal and life experience, right?
If he loses, “Ah, I’m recommended anyway, just ran along for experience.” If he wins, he can brag, “Some people could rely on looks and family background, but he insists on relying on talent.”
This kind of sure-win deal, if Li Wei doesn’t do it, he’s the fool.
He’s already understood the match rules; they’re pretty much the same as in the anime.
—Pokémon are only allowed to attack Pokémon; any attack on the trainer counts as a violation and will result in disqualification from combat.
—Unable to battle counts as match end. （Judging standard is failure to rise after 10-second countdown）
—Pokémon going out of bounds counts as match end. （Specific standard is out of bounds by half a meter or more）
The event rules are very clear; Li Wei has read them thoroughly.
There are many thought-provoking points in these rules that can be exploited.
Li Wei isn’t like some dirty-minded trainers who put their target on the first rule, using various visual blind spots and surveillance blind spots to force the opponent’s trainer to take a Pokémon skill, forcing the opponent to violate and win.
For Li Wei, he felt his winning points lie in the second and third rules: “failure to rise after 10-second countdown” and “out of bounds means loss.”
Just these two points, leveraging Riolu’s racial advantage, give high operability in battle.
First, make the opponent’s Pokémon unable to get up.
Thinking of this rule, his mind is full of his dad’s Swampert and Gallade.
This embedding-into-the-ground fighting style is really suitable for this arena match.
Similarly, as long as he uses this “embed-into-ground” style to knock the opponent out of bounds, he wins the match.
This is way simpler than beating them until they lose combat ability.
Controlling energy to push the opponent out of bounds is a technique that Fighting-type Pokémon, especially Riolu who has a chance to control Aura skills, have a huge innate advantage in.
Besides these two rule-exploiting win methods, Li Wei also thought of a dirtier tactic more suitable for his juvenile Riolu.
That is, hide-and-seek.
You hit me, can’t hit, I have more stamina than you, I can run faster than you, you get tired, you fall, I win.
This tactic used to nurture agile-type Pokémon like Riolu actually has a much higher success rate for winning matches.
He doesn’t know much about this Pokémon Riolu.
Because in the old games, aside from Mega, Lucario, the evolved form of Riolu, had low usage and appearance rates due to being fragile and countered by popular single-battle Pokémon.
Although its attribute panel has good dual attacks, its speed isn’t high enough, and most fatally, it’s very fragile.
In Pokémon games, the speed tiers are fiercely contested, and Lucario’s 90 speed on the panel really isn’t enough.
Plus the restraint from Steel attribute, before Mega, it’s completely suppressed by Blaziken.
Even with Mega, the odds of trading blows with Mega Blaziken or Mega Charizard X are at best 37.
The disadvantage of double damage from Ground attribute makes it get taken out directly by something like Garchomp with one Earthquake.
Although Lucario has high resistances, with advantages in nine attributes, being fragile means no future.
High damage but extremely squishy, in turn-based games it’s mostly a no-operation-space five.
As a shieldbreaker, occasional cannon or comeback role, Lucario’s nurturing method is quite fixed.
The most classic physical Swords Dance Lucario: Swords Dance + Close Combat + Meteor Mash/Bullet Punch/Extreme Speed + Ice Punch/Iron Tail/Earthquake/Crunch, with three or four moves varying by opponent and version.
If going romantic, it’s special attack stream.
Aura Sphere + Focus Blast + Focus Blast/Aura Sphere + Psychic/Dark Pulse/Shadow Ball/Nasty Plot
But in reality, after several days of observation by Li Wei, he felt the solo battlefield could change.
All that blood skin, resistances are bullshit, Assassin is forever god.
Speed won’t be limited by racial value caps, skills will be painful to master without TMs, but variability and operability are ridiculously improved.
Even Machamp, which the Pokédex says “brain too dumb hands tangle,” can peel apples and pick toothpicks; nothing can’t be learned through effort.
—Groudon can’t fly.
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Thus, three plans were added to Riolu’s training manual.
First, speed practice.
Second, learn Flight.
Third, strive to control Aura.
In terms of training, Li Wei, with countless videos watched, has his own ideas.
April’s main goals are improving foundational physical fitness and habit formation, maximizing Riolu’s combat instincts and running speed.
Pokémon that can learn Extreme Speed won’t have bad speed.
‘Quick Attack’ is Li Wei’s goal for the next half month.
Based on the experience passed from his dad, the way to acquire Extreme Speed is to breakthrough to the advanced form after comprehending ‘Quick Attack’.
With game knowledge, Li Wei feels this is logical.
Quick Attack has priority 1 in games, Extreme Speed has 2, and the skill effect descriptions are nearly identical.
Analyzing like this, ‘Quick Attack’ = ‘Extreme Speed’, no issues.
In games, Extreme Speed isn’t common, but in reality as a ‘passive’, it’ll be very annoying.
Really can kite and walk the dog on the competition venue.
Just imagining it, Li Wei feels it’ll be a very enjoyable visual feast.
As for Eevee.
Li Wei has no plan for her.
Main reason is three words.
Can’t bear it.
Feels like Eevee just hatched and hasn’t enjoyed life, Li Wei wants her to keep living happily.
If necessary, she can never evolve, just enjoy noble lady life at home forever.
Though a bit silly, Li Wei feels he can afford to raise her.
His training plan for Eevee stops at daily basic habit training and morning exercise from 5 to 7 a.m.
After all, share the hardship; even if enjoying life, as his Pokémon, this early rising······ everyone absolutely has to bear together!
Life is so monotonous; every day besides training with Riolu, it’s using his perfect human body diagram to teach Riolu the ’24-Form Simplified Tai Chi’ that contemporary Earth middle school students learn.
Although soul transmigrated to otherworld, born in Zhonghua Family, even if martial culture is different due to Pokémon, he feels this essence shouldn’t be ‘forgotten’ but inherited.
Tai Chi yin-yang way, he can’t just master the last two words, right?
Yin-yang harmony way to be promoted by him, and Tai Chi naturally needs inheritance.
But unfortunately, he only learned simplified Tai Chi in school, limited what he can teach; detailed steps and omitted parts’ perfection······ left to Riolu himself.
Isn’t it said Fighting-type Pokémon have unparalleled martial talent? Then leave it to talent!
Besides teaching Riolu Tai Chi due to ‘weird idea’, he also has a bold guess.
This is some imagination-unplaceable interclass exercise, from expecting Spiritual Energy Revival, brain hole unfolding from embrace ball stance.
If a ball of energy really expands from dantian outward, starting from embrace ball, to white crane spreads wings, high explore horse, to closing stance, what happens?
Even if Tai Chi is useless in real combat, could this continuous qi-circulation movement help Riolu condense Aura?
Dance more?（?） Could it also help lay foundation for Swords Dance comprehension?
Swords Dance from game Pokédex “amplification from mysterious power” becomes ancient-inherited dance.
Each pose seems ordinary, but each move has corresponding ‘force’.
Connecting these correct ‘force’ moves forms the dance called ‘Swords Dance’.
Surge of power, fixed foot rhythm, gives this dance entirely different meaning.
Like ‘invitation ritual’ before in old world, or stepping on Bagua qian kun zhen xun etc., plea dance for power surges with body energy, dancing Pokémon gains amplification.
Per this explanation, Li Wei guesses if controlling Aura and attribute power circulation in body while doing Tai Chi, does it mean he can successfully raise a dual-blade Riolu that knows Aura Sphere and self-Swords Dance?
Li Wei doesn’t know.
Everything is in experiment.
To see results, at least a week of persistence needed.
But with guaranteed ‘drag’ tactic, he feels all current experimental teaching has room for failure.
He can afford to lose; for this excellent ability breakthrough after success, he can wait.
Besides intensive training, Li Wei feels work-rest balance is important.
Martial power high, then go learn cultural subjects to rest~
For example, in spare time he’s started teaching Riolu and Eevee to recognize characters.
This started because every day Eevee couldn’t read his little manga and kept bugging him to read aloud, making him able to recite the whole story and write it perfectly from memory.
Very time-wasting and troublesome.
After checking Eevee’s average IQ and sighing regretfully for over ten minutes, Li Wei decided to gamble.
Teach Eevee pinyin first to test waters.
If it works, he doesn’t mind marking pinyin on text to help her read.
As for Chinese Characters······
Honestly, Li Wei never expected his silly Eevee to understand.
Riolu learning is more likely.
Thus, one person two Pokémon under Mime Jr. and Dragonair’s care, started carefree wild growth.
Every morning get up, embrace the sun, full of positive energy.
Teach Riolu and Lady Eevee to groom themselves, then take three small towels out for running.
Under Dragonair on the roof watching, the three little ones run a few laps around the home courtyard, doing about half an hour of aerobic exercise.
With Pokémon in this world, the air is surprisingly good; no more worrying morning exercise is like being a green plant.
Then diligent training for an hour and a half in the gym.
Eevee continues jogging, Riolu challenges speed and limits daily, Li Wei maintains the exercise amount from when his dad was home.
At least, this abs good for picking up girls, he doesn’t want to lose yet.
Free gains are nice, but maintaining is also heartbreaking and tiring.
After exercise, eat a loving breakfast from Mime Jr., then Riolu continues Tai Chi in courtyard under Dragonair’s watch, Eevee enjoys SPA, Li Wei crams Pokémon exam written content.
Noon follows sharing fortune principle, Eevee and Li Wei nap with Riolu.
After all, growth period, eating a lot and sleeping a lot is good; he Li Wei isn’t harsh enough to not let a two-week-old kid sleep.
Afternoon is Eevee and Riolu’s reading and writing session.
Considering summer soon, 3 p.m. sun is harsh, so Li Wei sets 3 to 5 p.m. as ‘Little Ash Classroom’.
After study, 5:30 p.m. dinner on time. After dinner, Riolu watches ‘Pokémon keep’ APP tutorial videos and follows beginner courses for Fighting-type Pokémon like horse stance, punching etc.
During this, Dragonair still lounges on roof watching, Eevee full and flops on sofa flipping latest weekly magazine.
Like today, she’s reading the latest issue of《playboy》, eyes shining and madly hinting Li Wei to buy.
But unfortunately, Li Wei immersed in memorizing and writing full text ignores her.
Everything orderly, but a week later, April 26th, during noon nap, Eevee had a tiny issue.
Timo’s Flop Diary
June 20th, overcast
Washed by critics today, I accidentally hurt one of my few allies.
Apologized to him, don’t know if he’ll come back.
Already tough flop life became even worse with this operation.
Sky still overcast today, birds outside don’t come call to me, only “Ah! Ah! Ah!” crow accompanies me.
Maybe this is flop.
ε=(ο｀*)))sigh
Big shots pretending flop in group chat again, this flop even last title taken.
Nothing left, just like my life.
Pitiful, lamentable, boring and dull.
Whine.
Ah whine whine whine whine whine whine.
